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Date:      Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:01:36 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, Calvin NG <calvinng@brel.com>, Sean Chittenden <sean-freebsd-stable@chittenden.org>, Jeff Kletsky <Jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pkg_version perl hacker project
Message-ID:  <20010425200136.B39540@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010424134637.A10180@rand.tgd.net>; from sean@chittenden.org on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:46:37PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104230806060.27435-100000@wildside.wagsky.com> <20010423231827.A19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424142340.E5216@brel.com> <20010424014833.B19530@rand.tgd.net> <20010424120052.H89156@xor.obsecurity.org> <200104241907.f3OJ7u103414@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010424123517.A90547@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010424134637.A10180@rand.tgd.net>

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Sean Chittenden(sean@chittenden.org)@2001.04.24 13:46:37 +0000:
> 	My problem with FTP is as follows:
[...]
> 530 User anonymous access denied.
> ftp: Login failed.
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection.
> ftp: Can't connect or login to host `ftp.freebsd.org'
> 
> 	I get that quite often and have been for a few years.  Are you
> sure that an HTTP method couldn't be made available?  ftp is an
> expensive protocol because it's interactive, not to mention that the
> protocol designers didn't have firewalls in mind.  HTTP, though less
> efficient in terms of data transfer for large files, is much easier to
> program, distribute, scale, etc.  Thoughts?  -sc

for fetching files, http is the better and faster alternative imho. i
got the whole mirror on filepile.nacamar.net(ftp2.de.freebsd.org)
exported via http (the /pub path) so all i have to configure in my
make.conf for example is replacing the ftp:// with http:// in
MASTER_SITE_BACKUP. for quick and easy updates http is the way to go.
you can also do all sorts of selective statistics with standard common
logfile format access_logs better and faster with log analysis packages
(like for example selective access statistics based on the os release
when you push the binary packages into different basepaths).

/k



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